Owner Polar Expedition Yard number 342 Length 71 m Builder Turku | Operator Marine Service-RUS Completed 7 July 1982 Draft 4.5 m | |
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Name Akademik Shuleykin (1982–2001)Polar Pioneer (2001–present) Port of registry Leningrad, 1982–1993 Saint Petersburg, 1993–2012 | ||
Polar Pioneer is a Finnish-built expedition cruise ship operated by the Australian cruise company Aurora Expeditions.
The ship was built in Finland in 1982 as the Akademik Schuleykin (Russian: Академик Шулейкин), an ice-strengthened research ship, and for many years she plied the waters of the USSR's northern coast. In 2000 she was refurbished in St. Petersburg to provide comfortable accommodation for 54 passengers.
Her sister ships are Akademik Shokalskiy, Arnold Veymer, Akademik Gamburtsev, Professor Molchanov, Professor Multanovskiy, Geolog Dmitriy Nalivkin, Professor Polshkov, Professor Khromov.
Polar Pioneer is currently the flagship for Aurora Expeditions.
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